[Pete_Pittock]

 A 70 year old golfer died recently at Tri-Mountain Golf Club in Ridgefield, WA, a bit north of Portland. Bill McBride, Slag Bandoon and I played there a little more than a year ago.
 They don't know why Kunchul Shin fell into the 10 ft deep pond on the left side of the 14th hole. His clubs were strewn on the ground. He may have been trying to retrieve a ball. He may have slipped in soft conditions. A heart attack has been ruled out. His son had to be rescued with someone holding out a driver to provide leverage to "climb a slippery water's edge".

[Norbert P]

  I played Tri-Mountain 2 days after that and raised a jigger in the fallen comrade's honor on the 14th tee. Of course, I sent my ball into the watery grave - a rote sacrifice. That haunted hole has killed more scorecards of mine than any other.  
   It is a sad thing to have happen and the story is still a mystery as his playing partners were up ahead and looked back to see . . . absence.  So the event's triggering secret went with the poor feller.
   It's not a dangerous looking pond - no big falloff, just tall grass and willows on the gently sloping banks.  

 
 

[Garland Bayley]

Have to wonder what the guys swing was like. I played once with a golfer that had the most amazingly repeatable swing. It was amazing that he could repeat it and get good contact time after time, because he basically started in a crouch and stood up straight in the process of swinging through the ball and following through. When he had to play a shot from the sloped bank of a pond with his back to the water his follow through toppled him over backwards for a big back flop in the water. Fortunately the pond was not steep and he easily climbed out.

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